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Violence in Sydney down due to lockout laws, NSW Premier Mike Baird says on Facebook
PHP:This is the greatest city in the world and it is now safer and more vibrant than ever. Long Live Sydney.
He can't have spent much time in other cities
“I’m telling you this because stark raving mad government thinks that the lockout laws have solved the problems, or will, of alcohol-fuelled violence,” Jones blasts. “It’s a mindless overreaction but businesses have gone broke, the city’s being shut down, and this is precisely what’s now going to happen in Queensland. [It’s] politicians distorting reality.”
Even Alan Jones agrees. It was fun watching Mike Baird, or Casino Mike as he's now known, get worked over after his stupid comments about Sydneysiders being hysterical for objecting to the lockout laws.
http://inthemix.junkee.com/even-shock-jock-alan-jones-wants-the-lockouts-overturned/138212
Of course Jones would be well above "cash for comment" wouldn't he ?
Well, one last statistic: the number of small bars in Sydney has more than doubled in the same time period.
Are you calling him a liar ?
If he's right then it means that the hysteria about businesses closing down is just that, hysteria.
and given his fondness for misquoting to suit his agenda ?
Baseless slander ?
NSW Premier Mike Baird has been using misleading statistics to defend the success of the state government's lockout laws, the director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Don Weatherburn, says.
You're hopeless.
"The problem with that is assaults have been coming down in NSW since 2008, so you had this pre-existing downward trend," Dr Weatherburn said.
"What the lockout laws did was accelerate the existing downward trend, so it fell even faster than before."
When asked whether there was any evidence that violence had shifted from Kings Cross to outer suburbs, Dr Weatherburn said crime figures did not support that idea either.
"We don't see any evidence of that. In the early part of the evaluation we saw a brief increase around Darling Harbour, near the casino.
"People have talked endlessly of an increase of assaults in Newtown; we don't see any evidence whatsoever of that.
"I have a suspicion that what people are getting confused about is the usual seasonal increase in violence in summer months."
He said there was no increase in violence in suburbs such as Bondi, Bondi Junction or Coogee.
Dr Weatherburn said there was no evidence of a "displacement effect" increasing domestic violence since the lockout laws were introduced.
"The number of domestic violence incidents have not changed, but you have to remember that only a third of incidents are reported to police."
Director of trauma at St Vincent's Hospital Associate Professor Tony Grabs said the lockout laws had had a profound impact on the number of people being injured by alcohol-fuelled violence.
"It has been a breath of fresh air for this hospital," he said
"What we see now is the number of people coming in with associated head injuries and alcohol-related violence has dropped dramatically."
Former security guard and one-punch victim Fady "Freddie" Taiba also supports the laws and has urged the Government not to concede to critics.
"I don't believe we should listen to these people saying 'this is not a fun place to be'," he said.
Mr Taiba said the value of life should not be compared to the loss of the so-called night time economy.
"All they're thinking about is money … No amount of money of gold in the world can replace the death of someone," he said.
You re pretty hopeless yourself.
Your ability to goalpost shift and argue for the sake of arguing beats mine. Have a nice weekend.
An opinion on the review of lockout laws
The lockout law review mustn't be so close-minded
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-16/lee-the-lockout-law-review-mustn't-be-so-close-minded/7170912
I can recall the days when there were no night clubs and the pubs closed at 10 pm....Nobody complained.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/a/30844206/kap-to-support-qld-lockout-laws/
Out on bail after allegedly killing somebody, absolutely unbelievable this country.
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Anti-coward punch campaigners are calling a Brisbane judge 'gutless' for bailing a teenager accused of killing a grandfather with a single king-hit after birthday celebrations allegedly turned deadly on the Gold Coast.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/a/31235779/bail-for-a-man-accused-of-a-one-punch-attack-on-a-grandfather-on-the-gold-coast/
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and we do agree that these pathetic bastards are the judges...The judiciary needs to harden the f.... up, a complete overhaul is needed... the streets are full of dangerous crims thanks to these pathetic bastards.
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